What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall,. . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.
I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.